Bug#1034248: release-notes: Document that GTK4 apps are not accessible with screen reader
Subject: release-notes: screen reader
Package: release-notes
Tags: a11y bookworm sid
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org
Many GNOME apps have switched from GTK3 to GTK4. Sadly, GTK4 is much
less accessible with the Orca screen reader compared to GTK3.
If you depend on a screen reader, we suggest that you install a
desktop like MATE instead of GNOME.
Other Info
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Debian Bookworm has GTK 4.8 and libadwaita 1.2. This issue is not
significantly improved yet even with GTK 4.10 and libadwaita 1.3. My
guess is that it won't be possible to fix this issue with Debian
Bookworm Stable Updates once it is fixed upstream because the amount
of changes will be too much. We hope that GTK4 apps will be accessible
for Debian Trixie.
There is a test case at
https://launchpad.net/bugs/2015760
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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